In the aftermath of the Turkish flotilla fiasco and the extensive world media
coverage that followed the confrontational bloody incident portraying the
alleged theatrical Turkish heroism in standing up to the Israelis, the two
notorious rogue and terrorist countries, Syria and Iran, who falsely and
deceptively claim to be the actual custodians of the Palestinian cause, pulled
the rug from under the feet of the Turkish Government. Their initial overt
reactions were to publicly hail the Turkish heroism in a bid to maintain their
so called "resistance image", while in reality and covertly they were so
threatened, angry, envious and somewhat confused.

The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), out of arrogance,
bravado, while camouflaging deceitfulness, and out of a mere show off, bragging
and camouflaging plotting mind, offered to militarily guard all ships heading to
the Gaza Strip, while Tehran's mullahs started immediately announcing plans to
send humanitarian aid ships to Gaza and challenge the Israeli marine blockade.

At the same time, they instructed their terrorist proxy in Lebanon,
Hezbollah, to flood the media with fabricated threats against Israel and to
sponsor flotillas from Lebanon as soon as possible in a bid to gradually
discredit all the praise that the Turks had garnered.

Hezbollah's scheme in this flotillas charade is to hide behind a ship that
carries only women. Hezbollah's security apparatus assigned the task to Mrs.
Samar Al Hajj, wife of Ahmad Al Hajj, one of four retired pro-Syrian Lebanese
high ranking security officers accused of planning and executing the
assassination of late Lebanese Prime Minister Raffic Hariri and committing
horrible atrocities during Syria's occupation of Lebanon. Meanwhile, the close
relation of Mrs. Hajj and her husband with both Syria and Hezbollah is well
known all over Lebanon.

Mrs. Hajj with other females tagged falsely as volunteers all loyal to
Hezbollah started a Hezbollah master minded campaign with the aim to sail on the
"Mariam" ship to Gaza Strip with diapers, milk, medical supplies as they
declared. Mrs. Hajj and her female group told "The Times" earlier this week that
they all represent themselves, are without political affiliations and include
adherents to all the world’s main religions, including Judaism.

Hezbollah, using its Taqiyya doctrine, publicly denied any role in any
Gaza-bound aid missions, and said in a statement: “We do not want Israel to use
the party’s participation as an excuse to attack the boats, but we praise all
initiatives aiming to lift Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip”.

The Lebanese government that is fully manipulated by Hezbollah stated that it
could not give permission to any ship to head to Israel, because she is an
enemy, but will allow the ship to sail to any other friendly country, including
Cyprus.

Cyprus responded by refusing to take any part in this Iranian-Syrian ship
fashion charade and reiterated its previous decision, not to allow any ship to
head to the Gaza Strip via its ports. Reliable sources in Beirut said that
Hezbollah was fully behind the mission and carried all its expenses.

The Syrian Baathist leadership in fear of any potential Israeli military
reprisal sent one of its civil ships that is owned by a close relative of
President Bachar Al Assad to the Lebanese Tripoli Port and gave it the
camouflaging name "Naji Al Ali".

The Syrian intelligence service instructed its Lebanese and Palestinian
mercenaries in Lebanon to carry out the mission and deny any ties with Syria.
The ownership of this Syrian ship was confirmed by numerous Lebanese and Arab
dailies.

Through many top notch officials, including civil and military, Israel warned
the Lebanese government, Syria and Iran and all those who explicitly or
deviously encouraged adopted, covered, protected, financed, or participated in
any of these so called aid ship missions that she would use all appropriate
measures to preserve her sovereignty and the safety of her people. In a
statement after a meeting of the Israeli mini-cabinet, Israeli Defense Minister
Ehud Barak said, “The Lebanese government is responsible for preventing these
ships from carrying arms, military materials, weapons, ammunition and
explosives". Israel said she would intercept Lebanese and Iranian ships that
tried to break the Israeli siege of the Palestinian territory.

This solid and clear-cut Israeli stance delivered the needed message and all
those hypocrites in Syria, Iran and Lebanon re-calculated and re-evaluated their
theatrical follies. They felt the Israeli heat and backed off. One might wonder
why they changed their challenging and bellicose positions, lowered the tone of
their empty threats and muffled their funny and childish bragging? The answer is
simple: power and seriousness.

The first response of submission came from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Iran. The
mullahs decided to scrap plans to send an aid ship to the Gaza Strip following
the Israeli warnings, the Iranian Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported
on Friday. This change of tone came after the Iranian Red Crescent earlier in
June decided to plan an aid shipment to Gaza. IRNA quoted the International
Conference for Supporting the Palestinian Intifada’s Secretary General Hussein
Sheikh al-Islam as saying that the sailing of the aid ship was canceled to
prevent giving Israel a pretext to attack it. The aid would now be sent to Gaza
via another route, he said, without elaborating.

This sudden change of all Iranian plans shows with no doubt that Iran, Syria
and Hezbollah are not genuine at all in their support to the Palestinians in
Gaza or in any other country. They are using the Palestinian cause as a pretense
for their actual schemes of expansionism, terrorism and destabilization of peace
and stability in the whole Middle East. In reality, the Palestinian cause is
mere merchandise for them, no more no less. They are greedy and opportunistic
merchants who are always ready to sell and buy when it is convenient and the
price is right. When they have no morals, mercy, affection or any human motives
towards their own people how could they be different with the Palestinians or
other people.

Above all and most importantly the Iranian mood change came as a result of
the forceful and deterrent language that the Israelis used. In fact, this is
the core and essence that led to the sudden "stance change" in Syria, Iran and
Lebanon. In reality, this is the only language that they comprehend and the only
language that must be used when communicating with them.

Hopefully the free world countries, especially the USA, and the European
countries, will learn from this Israeli-Iranian scenario and stop appeasing and
cajoling Syria, Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah and all other terrorist and radical
groups.

In conclusion, the only language that rogue countries and organizations know
and understand is the language of strength and force. All other means are futile
and a complete - and an existentially dangerous- waste of time.